1.family was very political
2.father was an imigrant
3.impressionable or extreme susceptibility to external and internal impulses of feeling
4.authority and the despotism of custom
5. independent and mental freedom
6. had a love for chemical experiment and poetry
7. had a horrible relationship with his father
8.was almost shot twice
9. shelley was inspired by poems by victor and cazire, and the fragments of Margaret Nickolson
10.had friendly competition with John Keats
11.also inspired many writers with his poem " Queen Mab"
12.the british could not except alot of his writings
13.some poems demonstrated shelley as a singular power of seeing ordinary things with directness
14.suppassing imagination and beauty of his work
15. wrote letters to Thomas Lover Peacock and others, and his uncompleted defense of poetry
16.expelled from school for expressing his atheistic views
17.passionate about life and generous to friends caoused financial hardship
18.loved to hunt and fish, inspired by wild life and nature
19. Thomas Jefferson Hogg was his best friend and he supported all of shelley's ideas and beliefs
20. His first publication was a gothic novel, Zasterozzi


"Percy Bysshe Shelley." soylent communications. (2010): 10. Print.




1.he was an athiest
2. he was a vegitarian
3.wanted an open relationship
4.was very idealistic
5.was very outspoken
6.had very strong beliefs and non-beliefs
7.his writings were published after his death because they had such strong beliefs and they writings were out there
8.he was very much appreciated after death
9.spent years in a conventional institution
10. shelley was very unhappy in the institution
11. his idealism and controvercial philosphys developed while at the institution
12.the oldest of 7 children
13.his family supporeted him very much
14.described his mother as beautiful, a women with good abilitys
15.he had a live imagination
16.erratic fancy
17.happy and uneventful academic life
18.shy
19. was a very non-violent person
20. wanted peace



"Percy Bysshe Shelley." spartacus educational. (1997-2010): 7. Print.



1. known as an english romantic poet
2. his brief life was colorful
3.his idiosyncratic, sensitive nature and refusal to conform to tradition earned him the name "mad Shelley", but during his years as a student he enjoyed several close friendships and pursued a wide range of interests to his prescribed studies.
4. actively involved in political and social reform in Ireland and Wales
5.he wrote radical pamphlets in which he set forth his views on liberty, equality, and justice
6.shelley hastened to renew his relationship with Byron, who was living in italy
7.Shelley and Byron became the nucleus of a circle of expatriots.
8. they became known as the "Satanic School"
9.much of shelleys writing reflects the events and concerns of his life
10.usually regarded as his masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound combinds myth, political allegory.phychology, and theology
11.the jistory of shelley's critical reputation has been charaterized by radical shifts
12.during his life time he was generally regarded as a misguided or even depreaved genius.
13.critics frequently praised potions of his poetry in passing and deplorted at length his atheism and unothodox philosophy
14.his desirtion of harriet was hindered by widespread rumors
15.rumors of a love triangle between mary harriet and percy
16.after his death shelley's reputation was greatly influenced by the efforts of his widow and friends to portray him as an angelic visionary
17.the 19th century, for the most part ignored his radical politics
18. instead they celebrated his spiritual and atheistic qualities of his poetry
19.generally focused on his imagry
20.the details to his personal life continue to fascinate students of english literature


Greenfield, John R. "Percy Bysshe Shelley." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Gold. Web. 29 Apr. 2010.




1.enlish romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice
2.educated at Syon House Academy
3.he resisted from physical and emotional bullting by indulging in imaginative escapism and literary pranks
4.he eloped harriet westbrook
5.he circulated pamphlets advocating political rights for roman catholics
6.1813 issued "Queen Mab"
7.read the classics with Hogg and other friends
8. warns idealists not to abandon "sweet human love" and social improvment for the vein pursuit of evanescent dreams
9.declared shelley unfit to raise lanthe and charles(his chikdren by harriet), they then were placed in foster care
10.his career had been politically oriented
11.most of his prose works were devoted to reforming society
12.he deepened his understanding of art and literature and, unable to reshape the world to conform his vision
13.he portrayed even love in terms of aspiration, rather than fulfillment
14.Prometheus Unbound, was the keystone to his poetic achievment
15.eloquently declares that the poet creates humane values and images
16.mary shelley faithfully collected all her husband's unpublished writings
17.she had disseminated his fame
18.the careful study of his publications and manuscripts has since elucidated his deep learning, clear thought, and subtle artistry
19.developed rational themes within traditional poetic forms
20.he stretched language to his limits in articulating both personal and desire and social altruism


"related works." Percy Bysshe Shelley biography . (1994-2009): 5. Print.